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Secretary-General
John Gray, PhD

Dr. John Gray, Secretary-General of the International Association of Gerontology, is the principal of John Gray PhD Consulting and formerly the Manager, Policy Development for Mental Health Treatment Services, Adult Mental Health Policy Division of the British Columbia Government's Ministry of Health Services. Since 1980, he has been involved in a number of provincial government initiatives in British Columbia concerning older people. These include mental health policy and establishment of programs, medication issues, and psychogeriatric strategies.

He was involved in the establishment of the British Columbia consortium of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, a major study on dementia. He was a founding director on the advisory board of the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario.

Prior to 1980, Dr. Gray was involved in clinical practice and in mental health administration as Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford, a psychiatric facility and community service, where he developed his interest in geriatric mental health issues. He also worked as an Assistant Executive Director at Riverview Hospital, British Columbia's only tertiary care psychiatric facility.

Dr. Gray served two terms as Second Vice President of the Canadian Association on Gerontology and was the Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 1990 Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting. He served as the secretary of the 17th World Congress of Gerontology Organizing Committee of the IAG.

Recent Publications

• Gray, J.E., Shone, M.A. & Liddle, P.F. (2000) Canadian Mental Health Law and Policy.Toronto: Butterworths,
• Gray J.E & O’Reilly, R.L. (2001). Clinically significant differences among Canadian mental health acts. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 46(4):315-321.